Offender Healthcare Paramedic
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a compassionate, knowledgeable, and motivated Offender Healthcare Paramedic to join the team at HMP Swaleside. You will provide specialist paramedic interventions, act as an expert practitioner, and support junior colleagues within a primary care service. The role involves promoting health and well-being for offenders and working in partnership with various organisations to ensure high-quality care.
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification - Registered Paramedic
- Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of two years' experience post preceptorship
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within secure & prison settings
- Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare
- Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
- Ability to work effectively and autonomously
- Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
- Education/Qualification
- Professional Qualification - Registered Paramedic
- Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of two years' experience post preceptorship
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration including working in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
- Experience of working within secure & prison settings
- Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing prison/offender healthcare
- Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of change management and new ways of working.
- Ability to work effectively and autonomously
- Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and to plan ahead.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £51,387 – £58,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Offender Healthcare Paramedic
The closing date is 07 September 2026
Job summary
As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking to recruit a** compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Offender Healthcare Paramedic to join our friendly team at HMP Swaleside.**
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our primary care team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
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